La Tène is a village near the Neuenburger See, also called Lac du Neuchâtel, a lake in Switzerland. It is both an archaeological site and the eponymous site for the late Iron AgeLa Tène culture. Lake Neuchâtel (in French: Lac de Neuchâtel) is a lake in Western Switzerland in the cantons of Neuchâtel, Vaud, Fribourg, and Bern. ... An eponym is a person, whether real or fictitious, whose name has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery, or other item. ... Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... The La Tène culture was an Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857. ...
See La Tène culture for complete article. The La Tène culture was an Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857. ...
La Tène society seems to have risen to prominence through trade with the Mediterranean, with the Greeks and Etruscans, and later the Romans.
In general, the technological level of the La Tène Celts, with very few exceptions, was equal to, and in some cases surpassed that of the Romans.
Before the La Tène Culture of the Celts was finally destroyed by Roman conquest and culture, some of its elements had traveled beyond the continent into the British Isles.
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